Reverse Quotes
493 quotes by 432 authors
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It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of…
— James A. Baldwin
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you…
— Joss Whedon
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I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In…
— Joanne Harris
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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it,…
— David Levithan
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Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep,…
— Edna O'Brien
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The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
— Salman Rushdie
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the…
— Alan Watts
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the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.
— Susan Abulhawa
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In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the…
— Mindy Kaling
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Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility.
— Marguerite Steen
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Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the…
— Martin Sorrell
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We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that…
— Charles Handy
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Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the…
— Ivan Krastev
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I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then…
— Jeff Kinney
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While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to understand that after you take out a…
— Suze Orman
Who Wrote These Reverse Quotes
432 authors contributed a total of 493 Reverse Quotes, led by these top contributors: